"The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in the sinking of the unfit."

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Source : "Living Again: An Autobiography".

Felix Riesenberg

#Sea Quotes #Effort Quotes #Aptitude Quotes

“marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!”

Source : Eric Jerome Dickey (2008). “Pleasure”, p.212, Penguin
“Sugar is celebratory. Sugar is something that we used to enjoy. Now, it basically has coated our tongues. It's turned into a diet staple, and it's killing us.”
“After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing of pop music and rock music, I don't think anyone really believes that music is anything more than another commodity.”
“I do believe you have a wound too. I do believe it is both specific to you and common to everyone. I do believe it is the thing about you that must be hidden and protected, it is the thing that must be tap danced over five shows a day, it is the thing that won't be interesting to other people if revealed. It is the thing that makes you weak and pathetic. It is the thing that truly, truly, truly makes loving you impossible. It is your secret, even from yourself. But it is the thing that wants to live.”

Source : "Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman". BAFTA Lecture, www.bafta.org. September 30, 2011.
“It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.”
“What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?”
“I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and maybe precisely in being equally allegiant to an inward fineness of sensibility and an outward-facing rigor of protest or critique.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I base the roles I choose depending on the characters. That's just how I'm gonna run my career. So if it's a good role I'm gonna take it whether it be fantasy, or whether it be realistic or fiction, anything.”

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